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And pumped hydro is limited by geography. Unless the local landscape supports one lake above the other (for some suitable definition of "above") you can't build pumped hydro at any significant scale.


You can build them all over the mountains but it involves flooding new valleys with the associated cost both economic from displacing the existing people and destroying the ecosystem in that valley.




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